M. C. M. van de Sanden

Flow-thermochemistry coupling governs pressure-dependent CO$_2$ conversion in vortex-stabilized microwave plasma reactors: Insights from three-dimensional CFD modeling

In this work, a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model is developed for a vortex-stabilized microwave CO$_2$ plasma reactor operating over the pressure range of 100-400 mbar. The model combines experimentally constrained, emission-based plasma sizes and volumetric heat-source distributions with thermally...